US forces shot down an armed drone above their embassy in Baghdad on Monday evening (Representational)
Baghdad:
US forces shot down an armed drone above their embassy in Baghdad on Monday evening, Iraqi safety officers mentioned, hours after a rocket assault on a base housing US troopers within the west of the nation.
American defence programs fired rockets into the air in Baghdad, in line with AFP reporters, with Iraqi safety sources saying the salvos took out a drone that was laden with explosives.
Since the beginning of the yr, 47 assaults have focused US pursuits within the nation, the place 2,500 American troops are deployed as a part of a global coalition to combat the jihadist Islamic State group.
Six of them concerned these sorts of drones, a tactic that poses a headache for the coalition because the plane can evade air defences.
In April, a drone filled with explosives hit the coalition’s Iraq headquarters within the army a part of the airport in Arbil, the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital.
The subsequent month, a drone filled with explosives hit the Ain Al-Asad airbase housing US troops.
On June 9, three explosives-laden drones focused Baghdad airport, the place US troopers are additionally deployed. One was intercepted by the Iraqi military.
In an indication that the United States is anxious about new drone assaults, it just lately supplied as much as $three million for info on assaults focusing on its pursuits in Iraq.
Separately on Monday, three rockets focused an Iraqi air base within the western desert that additionally housed US troops, the worldwide anti-jihadist coalition mentioned.
The assault focused the bottom at Ain al-Assad with out inflicting any casualties.
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